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Basel Chair Factsheet

Basel Chair Factsheet

Basel Chair Factsheet

Product catalog summary
Overview: The Basel Chair, designed by Jasper Morrison in 2008, is a modern reinterpretation of the classic wooden chair. It combines traditional design with innovative materials to enhance both aesthetics and functionality.
Design and Innovation: The chair features harmonious proportions and introduces a significant innovation with its use of plastic for the seat and backrest. This choice allows for a more organic shape, improved surface texture, and a thinner, more flexible design compared to traditional all-wood chairs.
Materials: The frame is made of beech wood, available in natural or black lacquer finishes. The seat and backrest are crafted from ASA plastic, which is dyed through for durability and color consistency. The chair is equipped with plastic glides for carpeted floors, with optional felt glides for hard floors.
Comfort and Aesthetics: The combination of wood and plastic materials provides enhanced seating comfort. The chair is available in two-tone variants, offering visual appeal alongside functional benefits.
Dimensions: The chair's dimensions are compliant with EN 1335-1 standards, ensuring ergonomic suitability.
Color Options: The Basel Chair is available in a variety of colors, including basic dark, light grey, brick, cream, chocolate, and cactus, with options for black or natural beech frames.
Availability: Vitra, the manufacturer, offers global availability of the Basel Chair. For local partners, visit their website at www.vitra.com.
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Basel Chair Factsheet-1

Basel Chair Jasper Morrison, 2008 Basel Chair With the Basel Chair, Jasper Morrison renews the classic genre of simple wooden chairs, which have been industrially produced over the past 100 years in great quantity and variety. The eye is immediately struck by the harmonious proportions, yet on closer inspection the chair also reveals a decisive innovation: the seat and back are made of plastic, allowing for a more pronounced organic shape, enhanced surface texture and an overall thinner – and thus more exible – design compared to all-wood chairs. Thanks to this combination of materials, the Basel Chair provides signicantly improved seating comfort over chairs made only of wood and, in its two-tone variants, is especially pleasing to the eye. Materials ∏ Frame: beech, natural or black lacquer nish. ∏ Seat and backrest: ASA plastic, dyed through. ∏ Glides: tted with plastic glides for carpet; felt glides for hard oors optionally available. DIMENSIONS (measurements are established pursuant to EN 1335-1) Basel Chair

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oasic dark I brick I chocolate I natural beech cream I cactus I black beech Seat and backrest plastic Base Vitra can be found around the globe. To find a Vitra partner in your area, go towww.vitra.com.

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